293rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 293rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 11, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

293rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 293rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 11, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Business to Exit: Dara Greaney, CEO of BuyAutoParts.com (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: At the end of 2015, where did you finish in terms of revenue level and in terms of other business metrics? Dara Greaney: Last year, we did $54 million. That was 15% growth. We’ve been profitable every year. We shipped a record 220,000 shipments last year. I think we sold about 22,000 different

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Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Business to Exit: Dara Greaney, CEO of BuyAutoParts.com (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How many people did you have for executing this $18 million business in 2010? Dara Greaney: I have to go back and pull the numbers, but it wasn’t a big staff. We were keeping it pretty lean. We probably had about 30 people and about 5 or 10 on the phone doing order processing.

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Using Services from The Netherlands: Pierre and Fred Guelen, Planon Software (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Now what? You’re in 2016. How big is the company revenue-wise and what do yo want to do with it? Do you want to go public? Do you want to go public in the US market? Fred Guelen: We definitely first want to secure further growth for the next three to five years.

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Thursday, Feb. 11 – 293rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 293rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 11, 2016, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Using Services from The Netherlands: Pierre and Fred Guelen, Planon Software (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Where did you get the money to invest? Fred Guelen: That’s always the big secret, isn’t it? I had a very successful law practice and I made a lot of money as a lawyer. I was able to largely finance that with my own equity, and I also took a loan. Pierre Guelen:

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Using Services from The Netherlands: Pierre and Fred Guelen, Planon Software (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What did that do to your growth? Between 2000 and 2010, how did the company grow? Pierre Guelen: We’ve always had a steady pace of growth of an average of 20% a year. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to 2010. Are we talking about just one product in the cloud architecture in 2010? Pierre

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